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Source: http://www.algemeiner.com/2012/10/10/where-jewelry-and-charity-meet/
Where Jewelry and Charity Meet
(Algemeiner) Judy Lash Balint - Isaac and Orna Levy, owners of Yvel, an award-winning Israeli jewelry company near Jerusalem, are running an innovative school that is teaching the jewelry trade to an eager group of motivated Ethiopian immigrants. The Megemeria training program ("Genesis" in Amharic) trains some 21 Ethiopian immigrants at a time, chosen for their artistic sense and propensity for precision work. Isaac Levy said the first year graduates "are now employed in full-time jobs and...are supporting the Israeli jewelry industry abroad." Before they were accepted to Megemeria, several of the students were working as house cleaners and security guards.